We have started a new inquiry this week on bears! The children have been busy researching and collecting materials to add to our new habitat. We have also been busy drawing, colouring, and molding grizzlies, black bears and cubs out of plasticine.
Our friends are learning lots of interesting facts about bears and are discovering lots of new words such as, "hibernation," "den" and "mammal" that we are currently exploring in class.
Ask your child to share one interesting fact about bears with you tonight!
Curriculum links:
Visual Arts:
Explore a variety of tools, materials, and processes of their own choice to create visual art forms in familiar and new ways.
Demonstrate an awareness of the natural and built environment through hands on investigations, observations, questions, and representations of their findings.
Science:
State problems and poses questions before and during investigations.
Select and use materials to carry out their own explorations.
Language:
Retell information from non-fiction materials that have been read by and with the EL-K team in a variety of contexts.
Use prior knowledge to make connections to help them understand a diverse range of materials read by and with the EL-K team.
Matches spoken words with written words.
The children have also been learning how to scan QR codes, explore and "read" non-fiction books, and listen to some educational videos on I pads about grizzlies, black bears and polar bears.
Ask your child to share one interesting fact about bears with you tonight!
Ask your child to share one interesting fact about bears with you tonight!